[ale] Putting wifi in the house

[Philip Polstra]

It isn't totally pointless.  It will detour the casual bandwidth leach.

For those of you that think it is fine to let your neighbors leach off your
bandwidth consider this scenario:  Your neighbor leaches off your network
with his Windoze laptop.  Your neighbor visits porn sites.  Your neighbor
picks up adware/spyware/viruses/worms.  Your neighbor's laptop starts
spewing spam.  Your ISP shuts down your e-mail ability, and perhaps all your
access.

I don't care if others freeload on my network, but I don't trust them not to
cause problems.

On 1/31/06, Pat Regan <thehead at patshead.com> wrote:
>
> Philip Polstra wrote:
> > You definitely want to use WPA encryption.  If your router only supports
> > WEP, it is a least better than nothing.  Disabling the sending of the
> ESSID
> > will detour some, but I can still get it through passive sniffing.
> > Disabling DHCP can also detour some, but then you need to have the setup
> on
> > each computer.  Using IPSec, or some other VPN product is also a great
> idea.
>
> Disabling the broadcast of ESSID is rather pointless.  As you said,
> anyone who can crack WEP will be able to obtain your ESSID.  :)
>
> Pat
>
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